News from the Italian Department.
To teachers from the Italian Teachers Association, please find here the page to help with vocabulary for Il Tempo.
Click here to download the page.
Thanks to Silvia Bertoni and Susanna Nocchi for an interesting conference last week.
Check out http://www.languagesinitiative.ie a new website for teachers.
Thank you to Karen Ruddick for the informative talk on the work of the Modern Languages Initiative.
Thanks to Marta Aurora who, through Volunteer Ireland, has kindly volunteered her services to present a short history
of Italian politics for class 501. She is also doing a presentation on Italian gestures for the class.
It is invaluable having the authentic voice in the class.
We are grateful to the Department of Education & Science and the Italian Ministry for their provision of
a language assistant for the College.
Nuri Benassib has come to us from Naples.
He has contributed enormously to the development of Italian in the College. Thank you Nuri.